Yan Zhen’s novels take the growth and change of intellectuals as the main line to explore further their insistence to personal beliefs and the process of their transition under the influence of current political and cultural situation, displaying sufficiently success, failure, honors and disgrace of contemporary intellectuals in contending for fame and wealth and in the process of fight in official circles, as well as the spiritual distortion and soul salvation resulted from them. Based on this, it makes further modern reflection on the traditional life values of “a good scholar will make an official”.